DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589068162.069

ISBN: 9781589068162

The sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual presents revised and updated standards for concepts, definitions, and classifications for international accounts statistics....

Publication Date:
01
December
2009

ISBN: 9781451874211

We undertake a quantitative analysis of the dispersion of current accounts in an open economy version of incomplete insurance model, incorporating important market frictions in trade and financial flows. Calibrated...

This paper analyzes the behavior of current account deficits in Africa and estimates whether the deficits are excessive with respect to fundamentals. The findings are the deficits are (i) not very persistent; (ii)...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
01
August
1996

ISBN: 9781451850703

This paper compares the evolution of the Australian current account balance over the period 1954&#x2013;94 against an optimal current account derived from a consumption-smoothing model. The findings indicate that t...

Series: Books

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
18
July
1997

ISBN: 9781557756374

Since the beginning of the 1990s, current account imbalances in a number of the countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have widened considerably, generating concern in some quarters...

Employing a dynamic panel regression, this study estimates the medium-term current account position for three subgroups of emerging market and developing countries with shared economic characteristics. The fundamen...

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
01
September
1969

ISBN: 9781616351816

THE following Tables 54-66 present balance of payments statements, for 1967 and 1968 and for the first quarter of 1969, for Austria, Belgium-Luxembourg, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Ne...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
15
March
1987

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9780939934935.071

ISBN: 9780939934935

Written by Margaret Garritsen de Vries, former Historian of the IMF, the book describes the policies and activities the IMF has pursued in helping members achieve balane of payments adjustment. Separate treatment i...

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557753670.069

ISBN: 9781557753670

The Manual presents concepts, definitions, classifications, and conventions for compilation of balance of payments and international investment position statistics. As the international standard, the Manual serves...